Being the one to suggest that Erudite, IIMA’s resident book club, should read Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li last month, I felt a great deal of responsibility as I cracked open my dusty laptop and clicked past the electric blue of the cover. It felt like my fellow members were peering over…
It’s not just you, it’s all of us
In term 4 (first term of PGP2) at IIM Ahmedabad, we had a course called ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’. The emphasis laid during the course as well as in general management education on ‘thinking like an entrepreneur’ made me dig a bit deeper into what factors truly help create entrepreneurs. Austrian Sociologist and economic historian Joseph Schumpeter…
A literary soul safari
Some years ago, I went to this remote cottage near Manali, tucked in the lap of the valley, far from any village. The place was ordinary and the lifestyle simple. As I left the place, I felt a feeling of contentment – a rare satisfaction that only some powerful things have given me. There was…
The Medieval Fantasy
As I moved through the pages of A Song of Ice and Fire I realised why I like this particular kind of content so much. When I read about the glorious times of kings and queens and get to know more about the resplendent medieval period, my sense of wondering transports me to an era that I…
Journey to a Name
It was a joyous occasion at the Chatterjee household as they welcomed their first progeny to the world. House number 233 in the IIM Vastrapur campus was soon flooded with friends, relatives, colleagues and students of Prof. Sachin Chatterjee, a recent recruit to the campus. Sachin realized the gravity of the responsibility that the universe…
The Curious Case of Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks was a poor 31 year old black woman who died at the age of 31 in October 1950 from metastasised cervical cancer which ravaged every single organ inside her body. During the course of her treatment at Johns Hopkins, a surgeon sliced away cancerous and healthy portions of her cervix which landed in…
In Memoriam: P D James
The world of crime writing bid goodbye to its high priestess last week. P.D. James, creator of the gentlemanly detective Adam Dalgliesh, whose exploits she described through 14 books, died aged 94. James got into writing in her late thirties, starting off with detective fiction as an apprenticeship for writing more ‘serious’ novels, but the…
High on LSD 